The Ukrainian Analytical Digest (UAD) No. 15 on the topic of „Russia’s War Against Ukraine. War Crimes and Ukraine’s Quest for Justice“ is out.

This issue contains an editorial by the guest editor of this issue, Antje Himmelreich, as well as six contributions offering different perspectives on the war crimes committed by Russia against Ukraine:

Reiner Wedde discusses the potential of and the challenges for a special tribunal for the crime of aggression

Yevhen Pysmensky analyzes, how the Ukrainian legal system deals with Russian war crimes since 2014

Tetyana Vilchyk looks at the reforms in Ukraine’s criminal procedural legislation in the context of the armed aggression by the Russian Federation

Herbert Küpper asks, whether the lack of dealing with Soviet state crimes really hinder Ukraine from coping with current Russian war crimes

Kateryna Busol looks at torture as a policy in Russia’s aggression against Ukraine

Lea Pheiffer discusses, whether the Russian Ecocide in Ukraine is a crime or rather collateral damage.

The issue is available in open access under: https://css.ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/gess/cis/center-for-securities-studies/pdfs/ukrainiananalyticaldigest-015.pdf.

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